{"id":164437,"date":"2016-02-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=164437"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:06:08","slug":"canes-acquire-saarela-picks-for-eric-staal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=164437","title":{"rendered":"Canes Acquire Saarela, Picks for Eric Staal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/hurricanes.nhl.com\/club\/news.htm?id=871111&amp;cmpid=rss-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/3.cdn.nhle.com\/hurricanes\/images\/upload\/2016\/02\/estaaldl022816.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>RALEIGH, NC \u2013 Ron Francis, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the National Hockey League&#8217;s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has acquired center Aleksi Saarela (al-EHX-ay sah&#8217;ah-REH-lah), a second-round pick in the 20&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/hurricanes.nhl.com\/club\/news.htm?id=871111&amp;cmpid=rss-williams\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/hurricanes.nhl.com\/club\/news.htm?id=871111&amp;cmpid=rss-williams\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Canes Acquire Saarela, Picks for Eric Staal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, NC \u2013 Ron Francis, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the National Hockey League&#8217;s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has acquired center&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","wpcat-89-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911267,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164437\/revisions\/1911267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}